Question

1. What are the various symbols and biblical references employed in The Blessed Damozel"?
Explain their significance.

2. Does Chaucer characterize the prioress positively or negatively?

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Answer 1

Answer:

1) While it may be a love poem at its heart, "The Blessed Damozel" still has plenty of love for Christianity. That makes sense, really, when you consider that the title character in the poem is kicking it in heaven. She's definitely the pious, "blessed" type—and we're told this right from the get-go. In line 5, for example, we see her holding three lilies, meant to symbolize the Holy Trinity of the Father (God), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. We also learn that she has seven stars in her hair, a reference to the description of Jesus Christ in Revelations 1.16.

2) The character of the Prioress in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a woman of two faces. She is introduced in the General Prologue as an aristocratic, genteel, pious nun, but she is a raving bigot, because her tale is full of anti-Semitic attitudes.